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Ric Riccardo (1903-1954),
Dance
Riccardo, who was born in Italy, did work for the WPA during the 1930s, but his primary career was that of restaurateur. He opened Riccardo’s Restaurant and Gallery in 1935. In addition to this restaurant, which was modeled after a Parisian left-bank café, Riccardo owned Pizzeria Uno, where, with co-owner Ike Sewell, he [...]

from LACE, artleak.org
“Small Skyscraper” is a quasi legal structure that exploits a loop hole Chris Burden discovered in the Los Angeles County building codes. This loop hole allows small out buildings, like green houses and sheds, to be built without a building permit if they stay within 400 square feet and under 35 feet high. [...]

This useless device measures 3″x3″x1.75″, uses four AA batteries, and has a slot in the front, along one of the smaller faces. Sliding the top edge of any piece of paper into this slot in the indicated direction engages a motor, which drags the paper through the slot, past a pair of rotating blades [...]

yesterday, after my massage appointments, I went to best I and bought myself a you ask the microphone for Macintosh.
Thus, I’m dictating this century solely by Boris. No, you fought immediate, it’s not a century but an entry and it’s not Boris its Bullock’s no its voice. That’s better.
Actually, also looks a little funny, it’s [...]

This was too funny.
I left my cigarettes in the trunk of my motor scooter, so when I got up, I went downstairs to get them. While I was walking out in front of my building enjoying my first one of the day, I witnessed something I just had to share.
The opposite side of the [...]

Aww, what a shame, I loved sending people to goatse.cx (used to be VERY not work safe now dead-ish). Story is here.
Bummer.

Ah, the joy of riding a tiny motor scooter in heavy traffic. Said motor scooter is a 49cc Yamaha Zuma, cool-looking, but still not much of a vehicle. I usually ride around 30-35 mph, but it goes around 40 mph on level ground, approaching 50 on a steep downhill with a tailwind.
But in [...]

Interesting essay entitled What You Can’t Say. Excerpt:
Kids’ heads are repositories of all our taboos. It seems fitting to us that kids’ ideas should be bright and clean. The picture we give them of the world is not merely simplified, to suit their developing minds, but sanitized as well, to suit our ideas of [...]

I visited the R. M. Schindler Studio and Residence today. I sort of liked it, and thought I could be comfortable living there.
It’s a weird place - the bedrooms are rooftop decks, one sleeps outside. It was also designed as a home for two couples. Schindler and his wife lived there, first [...]

drawings on acid from the 60’s

porn movie posters of the 60’s and 70’s